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The Art of Bird Camp

10,000 Birds

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress. Puffins growl like chainsaws, and one in Britain was seen carrying 62 fish in her beak.

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At Sea With the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

She doesn’t know the species till it emerges, almost dreamlike, from the heavy glare of the sun. Having shown us the bird, the boat, and the water, Fox then introduces herself: “Albatrosses, petrels, fulmars, puffins and gulls live out their lives along these transect lines; my job is to count them all.”.

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